The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast

The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast

<span><span>A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Two Years Before the Mast </span><span>is Richard Henry Dana’s classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Moby Dick</span><span> and </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Sailing Alone Around the World</span><span>. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America, he annotates Dana’s tale with critiques, compliments, tie-ins to today, and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of Dana’s time.</span></span>